Please have a good look at the eight options for the tarot deck card-front borders, then visit the poll linked at the bottom of this post to cast your vote. A png template of the most popular design will be sent out to the artists along with their card assignments on the 22nd. Voting will be open until Dec. 21st at 11:59 pm MST.
-Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a ranked choice voting site that allowed images to be inserted as answers, so please refer back to this post if you need to refresh your memory-
-VOTE HERE-
Card Assignments & art specifications sent to Artists - Dec 22nd
Voluntary Card Back Design Submissions - Dec 28th - Jan 4th
Card Back Design Voting Open/Closed - Jan 19th - Feb1st
Artist Check-In - Jan 20th - 26th
Card Back Design Winner Announced - Feb 2nd
Final Submissions Due - Feb 10th - 16th
Kylux Tarot Deck Available for Download - Feb 23rd
*This is the updated Event Calendar. I’m pretty confident that this release date will be accurate, but this is my first time organizing something like this. Please be patient with me if cards become available a little bit after Feb 23rd.*
51 artists have signed up so far! That leaves another 27 artist slots open for the first deck.
About 60% of you guys are super flexible and said you'd be willing to do a pinch hitter card/either art deck. Thank you, I honestly didn't expect that. <3
That’s a wrap! We’re finishing sign-ups with 68 artists!!! Thank you everybody who signed up (and thank you to those who couldn’t fit this into their schedule but wished us luck!)
I will be sending out an e-mail to Pinch Hitters in the morning asking for volunteers to adopt the remaining 10 cards so that all the card assignments can go out on the 22nd!
If you haven’t voted on border designs yet, you can do that here. So far border C is in the lead, closely followed by B and F.
*The Tumblr Log Off Protest is happening tomorrow, so this blog will not be active again until Tuesday. But I will be checking my e-mail [email protected] so if you have questions, please direct them there.*
I’m so excited to get this project off the ground and everybody's enthusiasm has been great!!! I’m looking forward to collaborating with all of you guys and making this Kylux Tarot Deck a reality!
After speaking with a number of interested people -some new and some participants from the last deck attempt- I have decided on a course of action for this project.
To avoid conflicts in time management with participants in the KBB this project won’t open for sign-ups until December 1st 2018 and will be open through December 16th. I will be waiting to create/post a more detailed outlined schedule for this project as we get nearer the start of this event. This schedule will contain the check-in windows/dates, any scheduled chats, as well as art deadlines.
How this Kylux Tarot Deck project is going to be organized:
1. We're starting over, turning a new leaf, and are going to take the Supreme Leader's advice and "Let the past die". I understand that this may be disappointing to participants of the previous Tarot Deck attempt since this means that there has been a lot of effort and love that never came to fruition. I'm sorry. I don't feel right accepting the cards from a year+ old project that is on hiatus... I feel like that would be sort of a 'hostile take over’. Also, there are new faces in this fandom who deserve a fair chance to participate on an equal playing field and a whole slew of new head-canons and ideas to be explored after TLJ, let's please collectively embrace this and move forward.
2. Card assignment(s) will be random and participants aren’t going to be juried in/out based on skill level. So if you really only want to design "The Lovers" card and nothing else, or you don't think ParticipantX is a 'talented enough' artist to make 'X card'... I'm sorry but this isn't the right project for you. This will be an all-inclusive project - if you think you have the dedication/time to do a card we want you to be a part of this celebration of Kylux fandom. I can't stress this enough. I will literally be putting ALL signed names into the "List Randomizer" on RANDOM.ORG. The names as they appear on that randomized list will be assigned cards by the number of the corresponding Tarot Card in traditional descending order and "The Fool" card will be assigned to the 78th slot since there is not a 0 on this list generator.
3. Assignments will be confidential, after sign ups close I will generate the assignment list and send a confirmation e-mail to all participants with their assigned card and make a sign-up's closed post. If you missed the sign-up window but you still want to participate I can still place you on the pinch hitter list, but this won’t guarantee that you will get a card in the deck. During this project I will likely set up some support/critique chats for those who want to get art advice/pointers or those who want to share their progress with the group. In an event like this I ask that we please do not direct hate toward someone over their randomly assigned cards. I sincerely hope that we can make our General proud, Hux expects more from us than behaving like the loathsome Resistance and acquiescing to disorder.
3. If this project collects more than 78 applicants I will split this project into TWO full decks, but I would like for the two decks to be distinguishable in theme... I propose a Kylux Canon Verse deck with the possibility of a Kylux AU/Kylux Adjacent deck. I am open to ideas, but I don’t think we need two canon decks in the event of a large turn out. To make up any shortages in participants for the possible second (but not lesser) deck, I will included an option on the sign up form for participants to opt-in for a Pinch Hitter Card Lottery. Winners of this lottery will be chosen by the same method as the card assignment. The names that appear from #1-X will be contacted in that order to design the remaining Pinch Hitter Cards. If there is an insufficient number of pinch hitters, I will personally step up and adopt the remaining cards because I want this deck to become a reality.
4. Card Back(s). Since the Card Back doesn't lend itself well to all artist's styles we will do something a little different than a random assignment. After card assignments are made and we're past our first progress check-in I will hold a VOLUNTARY Card Back Design Event. I will collect card back design submissions and create a poll where we can all vote for our favorite design for the back(s) of the deck(s). If you choose to participate in this Card Back Design Event there is absolutely no way to be guaranteed that your art will be selected, so know that going into it and be prepared to accept the ruling of the popular vote.
5. Art for this project will be designed to specification. There aren't too many restrictions, we just want these cards to look nice and be at least somewhat uniform, so there will be guidelines that need to be followed (ie. dimensions/resolution/iconography) for your submission to be presented in the final deck(s). These guidelines, along with the PNG overlay for border and bleed/cut margins will be e-mailed to each of the signed-up artists in their confirmation e-mail along with a link to a Tarot card meaning/symbology resource.
6. Life happens, sometimes our fandom lives need to be put on hold to take care of ourselves and there will be no judgment by me if life happens to you over the duration of this project. If you're unable to complete your assigned card for whatever reason, that is okay, all I ask of participants is that I'm given notice as soon as possible in the case of a 'life happening' event so that I can scramble to organize another artist to adopt your card.
7. This project is a labor of love. Nobody is getting paid, everything is volunteer only, and all of the art that is produced for this project will not be taken and reproduced for a profit. As an artist creating a card in this project you are agreeing to have that image reproduced by others for personal use.
8. No Pre-orders, this is self print only. This seems to be where the last project blew up like Starkiller Base. Everything was going great up until it came down to getting the cards printed and shipped to everybody. So, we are going to try something different. I will compile all of the completed cards into a zip folder that everybody will be able to access and download for free. The folder will have all of the cards and a document listing all of the artist who contributed to the project with links to their respective tumblr accounts... along with a tutorial on how to upload the designs to (basically any) custom card printing website (I’ll personally be using http://www.makeplayingcards.com to process my own deck) or if you have a printer and some card stock you can print them for yourself at home.
That’s about it for now guys. Keep your eyes peeled here for tarot border designs, I’ll be making some that are set up correctly for our printing service and we can vote for a favorite to be used. I’m looking forward to working with you all, thanks for reading this novel!
HULLO, please may I inquire as to what you mean by uniform iconography? THANK U
Sure thing! This won’t matter if you get a major arcana card, and is less applicable to court cards, but since most cards in the minor arcana are numbered it’s probably pretty relevant to everybody. So good question!There are four suits in the minor arcana, comprised of 14 cards each (10 numbered and 4 court cards) the suits are Swords, Wands, Coins, & Cups. If you receive a numbered card (which is statistically probable) it will need to visually include -depending on your suit- that number of swords/wands/coins/cups in your finished composition. I think we can play pretty loose on what counts as a wand or coin. For example, I think any straight and thin object (trees/architectural elements) could count for a wand and any round object (like the First Order Symbol) could count for a coin.Just think about regular playing cards and how there are 1-10 hearts/clubs/diamonds/spades on the numbered cards and how hearts/clubs/diamonds/spades are featured on the court cards… only, on tarot cards those elements can be included more artistically/subtly as to suit your design. I hope this helps!
Hey everybody! It’s been brought to my attention by a few people that it would be really nice to extend the timeframe for this project. So, in the interest of more participation from the lovely art community in this wonderful fandom, I am going to extend and shuffle around some dates for this event. I’ll be posting an updated calendar shortly.
